Cornwall


<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-where-to-play-tennis-in-cornwall">Where to play tennis in Cornwall</h2>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-michaels-resort-falmouth"><a href="https://www.stmichaelsresort.com/health-club/fitness-classes/tennis-courts">St Michaels Resort</a>, Falmouth</h1>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="844" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/St-Michaels-Resort-Falmouth-Tennis-2024-14.jpeg" alt="St Michaels Resort Falmouth Tennis Courts Cornwall" class="wp-image-34490" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/St-Michaels-Resort-Falmouth-Tennis-2024-14.jpeg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/St-Michaels-Resort-Falmouth-Tennis-2024-14-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/St-Michaels-Resort-Falmouth-Tennis-2024-14-1000x563.jpeg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/St-Michaels-Resort-Falmouth-Tennis-2024-14-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></figure>



<p><a href="https://www.stmichaelsresort.com/health-club/fitness-classes/tennis-courts">St Michaels Resort</a> newly refurbished tennis courts in Falmouth, offer quality facilities and stunning sea views to the local Falmouth community.</p>



<p>The four courts are just a stone’s throw from Gyllyngvase beach, which is a rarity in Cornwall, and have acted as a popular community hub for many years. The hotel has invested a significant £80,000 to enhance and improve the courts for keen tennis players and are proud to be reinvesting in the Falmouth community and local area – these courts are open to everyone.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-porthcurno-tennis-courts"><a href="https://pkporthcurno.com/tennis/">Porthcurno Tennis Courts</a></h2>



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<p>The Porthcurno Tennis courts are available for hire from PK Porthcurno Museum on an hourly basis for £5 &#8211; have a game, then look round the museum, before heading to the beach. You&#8217;ll have to provide your own equipment, the Museum does not have access to any balls or rackets. The courts date back to when PK Porthcurno was the famous Porthcurno Telegraph Station (or PK in telegraphic code). </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-wadebridge-tennis-club"><a href="https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/WadebridgeTennisClub">Wadebridge Tennis Club</a></h2>



<p>This LTA registered club has five outdoor courts and an active club membership, but you can also just book a court and pay as you play (although you&#8217;ll need your own rackets and ball). Runs summer camps for kids in the school holidays with the pro-coach, as well as after school coaching.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-heron-tennis-centre-newquay"><a href="https://www.heron-tennis.co.uk/">Heron Tennis Centre</a>, Newquay</h2>



<p>Heron Tennis has five outdoor hard courts, two indoor acrylic courts, two artificial clay courts,&nbsp;and also offers Padel Tennis and Mini Tennis. Heron is home to Ace Tennis Coaching &amp; Academy. Book online for pay and play starting at £10 for visitors, with equipment available to hire from £3.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-perranporth-tennis-club"><a href="https://perrantennis.co.uk/">Perranporth Tennis Club</a></h2>



<p>You&#8217;ll find six grass courts as well as three floodlit hard courts, some of which are available on a pay and play basis from £10. Perranporth Tennis Club also offers affordable tennis ranging from mini membership at £11 to family membership at £116, as well as LTA coaching.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bodmin-tennis-club"><a href="https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/cornwall/bodmin-leisure-centre/tennis-bodmin-leisure-centre">Bodmin Tennis Club</a></h2>



<p>Somewhere to play when it rains! There are three indoor courts at Bodmin as well as four Mini Red Courts and they run a variety of options from court hire to tennis taster sessions up to full LTA coaching. Outside are four full size and two mini courts, all floodlit. Non-members can hire courts for an hour from £24 (indoor) or £9 (outdoor).</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-boscawen-park-truro"><a href="https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/BoscawenPark">Boscawen Park, Truro </a></h2>



<p>Eight outdoor courts, some of which are floodlit, can be booked by the hour online from £8.50, or, you can pay for an annual pass for your whole household for £45. You&#8217;ll need your own equipment, but you book online and you&#8217;ll get sent the pin for accessing the courts.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re on holiday some hotels have courts where guests can play including <a href="https://www.bedruthan.com/families">Bedruthan at Mawgan Porth</a> and <a href="https://luxuryfamilyhotels.co.uk/locations/fowey-hall/?">Fowey Hall Hotel</a>, as well as self-catering including The Point Holidays and Highcliffe Cornwall.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-where-to-play-padel-tennis-in-cornwall">Where to play Padel tennis in Cornwall</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="993" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT.jpeg" alt="Man playing padel tennis at The Point Polzeath Cornwall" class="wp-image-32665" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT.jpeg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT-800x530.jpeg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT-1000x662.jpeg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT-768x508.jpeg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/PADEL-at-THE-POINT-793x525.jpeg 793w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></figure>



<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something like tennis but different, a fast-growing sport gaining popularity in Cornwall is padel tennis.  A cross between tennis, squash and beach&nbsp;tennis, it can be played both inside and outside, played in an enclosure of glass (so you can bounce the ball off the wall to score points like you do in squash) with a&nbsp;tennis&nbsp;net in the middle of the court. You’ll find padel courts at tennis clubs (including <a href="https://www.heron-tennis.co.uk/">Heron Tennis Centre</a>, Newquay) and the like where original tennis courts have been converted, as well as places like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thepointatpolzeath.co.uk/health-club/padel-tennis/">The Point</a>&nbsp;at Polzeath (above), and golf clubs.</p>



<p>From September, a new collaboration with UK Padel hits Porth, Newquay, where the largest padel club in Devon and Cornwall opens at SeaSpace. Five courts will be available to members, three doubles and in a first for the south west, two will be dedicated singles courts. Worried about the Cornish weather? Don&#8217;t be &#8211; pro-style retractable roofs are being installed. <a href="https://sea.space/memberships">Join the SeaSpace newsletter</a> to hear first how to sign up to play when the list opens in September.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-where-to-play-pickleball">Where to play Pickleball</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="949" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash.jpeg" alt="Pickleball racquet and ball" class="wp-image-32613" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash.jpeg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash-800x506.jpeg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash-1000x633.jpeg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash-768x486.jpeg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/cornwall/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2024/01/ben-hershey-J0OKd9h_aLQ-unsplash-830x525.jpeg 830w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/@benhershey?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash">Ben Hershey</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-yellow-tennis-ball-sitting-on-top-of-a-racket-J0OKd9h_aLQ?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>



<p>Combining badminton, tennis and tabletennis, Pickleball England claims that it is the fastest growing sport in Europe. While it is certainly not actually new, having started in around 2011, it was new at my gym for 2024.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pickleballengland.org/pickleball-club-locator-england/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cornwall has four dedicated Pickleball clubs</a>&nbsp;(Truro, Redruth, St Austell and St Just) but it is also being offered by leisure centres and gyms. It is billed as slightly easier to access than tennis as the ball speed is lower, and requires less space, as well as being able to be played inside – and can be played with two or four players.</p>


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